Description
This book focuses on how to understand reading processes and what it means to develop reading comprehension. With a wide-ranging theoretical basis, the author makes new connections between work in critical theory, cognitive psychology and literacy.
Key features include:
} how and why we read
} evaluating response to reading
} a whole-school approach to developing reading.
This book is highly recommended to teachers, literacy coordinators and students and lecturers of masters and doctoral programmes with a reading or literacy focus.
Table of Contents
Reading Reading
What Does Research Tell Us About the Reading Process and the Early Stages of Reading Development?
Understanding Understanding - Colin Harrison and John Perry
Developing Reading Comprehension - How We Learn from Texts
What We Have Learned from Research
Literacy Development in the Primary Classroom - Colin Harrison with Geraldine Kotsis
Fun, Phonics, Fluency, Fantasy and Developing Reading for Meaning
Case Studies of Reading Development at Secondary Level - Colin Harrison, Alan Dewar and Steve Willshaw
Developing Critical Literacy
Text, Discourse and the Collaborative Construction of Meaning
Evaluating Response to Reading
Can There Be Such A Thing As Postmodern Assessment?
A Whole-School Approach to Developing Reading
Policy Staff Development and Evaluation
